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Monday, 30 January 2017

As if to emphasise the growing shift to
electric vehicles (EVs), General Motorsand Honda have set up the auto industry’s first manufacturing
joint venture to mass produce an advanced hydrogen fuel cell system that will
be used in future products from each company with SOP set for 2020.

When a company begins a statement to the effect that “priorites have
changed”, you know there’s trouble ahead. And so it is with Torotrak which is refocusing
on KERS and IVTs. And it's all the fault of EVs and diesel technology.

Sunday, 22 January 2017

As UK Prime Minister,
Teresa May, become the first foreign leader to meet new US President Donald
Trump, focus will be on trade. And trade with Trump will be the one notion that
senior executives in the global automotive industry this weekend will be the
mulling the implication of Trump’s inauguration.

Wednesday, 18 January 2017

Opposed-piston engines
for road vehicles have proved to be a moving target. Mystifying and elusive. Promises
are made and not fulfilled. But now it looks as though there could be light at
the end of the tunnel. But still the light at the end of the tunnel is set for 2018.

Tuesday, 17 January 2017

Vauxhall has revealed it all-new Crossland X, what it sees as a
second vital ingredient to the company’s burgeoning SUV offering, which is due
to grow still further in 2017 with the launch of the larger Grandland X later
in the year.

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
and the California Air Registration Board (CARB) have a proved a 'fix' for
67,000 of the 475,000 Volkswagen and Audi 2-litre diesel engines programmed to
'cheat' US emissions tests.

Sunday, 15 January 2017

As shares in Renault
fell sharply late last week following reports that French prosecutors are
investigating the carmaker over possible diesel emissions claims, Cummins Inc.
has become the latest manufacturer to distance itself from the vehicle
emissions scandal.

Saturday, 14 January 2017

The US Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA) has lodged a complaint against Fiat Chrysler
Automobiles (FCA) of failing to
disclose software in 104,000 diesel pickups and SUVs that allows them to exceed
pollution limits.

Sunday, 8 January 2017

Ford, the US’s leading
truck leader, now offers an all-new 3-litre Power StrokeV6
turbo diesel and the “next generation” 2.7-litre EcoBoost engine in the new 2018 Ford F-150. Ford now has a truck to more than match the Fiat Chrysler Automotive Ram 1500 with its VM Motori V6 turbo diesel and which, like the 'new' 3-litre V6 from Ford has a CGI vee cylinder block. Ford's move raises one simple question: How will GM, the sleeping giant, respond? Will the 'new' 4.5-litre Duramax appear sooner rather than later? Another vee CGI diesel? The US rumour mill says the CGI Duramax will bow in summer 2018.

Friday, 6 January 2017

New funding for cleaner US school buses announced
by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will allow for significant air
quality improvements by replacing older diesel buses with newer, more efficient
technology – primarily advanced clean diesel technology. EPA is awarding $7.7 million to replace or retrofit
401 older diesel school buses in 27 states under the Diesel Emissions Reduction
Act (DERA).